La Mesilla
La Mesilla is a census-designated place in Río Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. Its population was 1,772 as of the 2010 census. In 1870, a family from La Mesilla was ambushed and killed by Mexicans disguised as Native Americans.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 1,770 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Río Arriba County, New Mexico, United States
- Also known as: “La Mesilla, New Mexico” and “La Mesilla, NM”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Clara Pueblo and Riverside.
Santa Clara Pueblo
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Santa Clara Pueblo "Singing Water Village", also known as "Village of Wild Roses" is a census-designated place in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States and a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people. Santa Clara Pueblo is situated 1½ miles northwest of La Mesilla.
Riverside
Hamlet
Riverside is a former village, now a suburb of Espanola, in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. It is located in north-central New Mexico, on the left bank of the Rio Grande across the river from Española proper. Riverside is situated 3 miles north of La Mesilla.
Santa Cruz
Hamlet
Santa Cruz, historically known as Santa Cruz de la Cañada, is a census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 423 at the 2000 census. Santa Cruz is situated 3½ miles northeast of La Mesilla.
La Mesilla
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Rio Arriba, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.94836° or 35° 56′ 54″ northLongitude
-106.07058° or 106° 4′ 14″ westPopulation
1,770Elevation
5,627 feet (1,715 metres)Open location code
857MWWXH+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 151505740OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5474935Wikidata ID
Q5403645
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“La Mesilla” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “La Mesilla”
- Chechen: “Ла-Месилла”
- Chinese: “拉梅西亞 (新墨西哥州)”
- Chinese: “拉梅西亞”
- Dutch: “La Mesilla”
- French: “La Mesilla”
- German: “La Mesilla CDP”
- German: “La Mesilla, New Mexico”
- German: “La Mesilla, NM”
- German: “La Mesilla”
- Gilaki: “لا مسیلا”
- Irish: “La Mesilla”
- Italian: “La Mesilla”
- Ladin: “La Mesilla”
- Persian: “لامسیلا، نیومکزیکو”
- Persian: “لامسیلا”
- Polish: “La Mesilla”
- Serbian: “Ла Месила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Mesilla, New Mexico”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Mesilla”
- South Azerbaijani: “لامسیلا، نیومکزیکو”
- Spanish: “La Mesilla”
- Tatar: “Ла-Месилла”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Месілла”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “La Mesilla”. Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.